Patrick Baty

The definitive book on the use of colour and paint in interior decoration over a three-hundred-year period, The Anatomy of Colour is certain to appeal to both amateur and professional restorers, renovators, enthusiastic decorators, and all those with an interest in interior decoration and design. Drawing on his extensive specialist archive, Patrick Baty traces the evolution of pigments and paint...

First published in 1814 and expanded in 1821, long before the era of colour photography or print, Syme's edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours attempted to establish a universal colour reference system to help identify, classify, and represent species from the natural world. Werner's set of 54 colour standards was enhanced by Patrick Syme with the addition of colour swatches...